SWAT confrontation in North Seattle ended without injuries

Traffic on several streets around the Seattle/Shoreline border was detoured Sunday night after the Seattle Police SWAT team and hostage negotiators were called about a man refusing to come out of a residence in the 14300 block of Stone Way Avenue North.

About 6:30 p.m., the man allegedly told a friend he was going to harm himself, and that friend called police. The man was armed and had weapons training, police said.

“We set up containment in the area,” Seattle police spokeswoman Renee Witt said. “We called out our hostage negotiators.”

As those teams and the SWAT unit were setting up, the man left the residence – ending the standoff after about 45 minutes, Witt said. No injuries were reported, and the man was taken to Harborview Medical Center for an evaluation.